Abstract:
The objectives of this study attempted to (i) study the policy direction of teachers' development in each discipline, (i) investigate the core competency of teachers in each discipline and (ii) analyze the process of teachers' development in each discipline. With official documents and in-depth interviews, key informants from Trimitr Witaya School, Santa Cruz School and Maepraprachak School consisting of eight heads of each discipline, three school directors and one administrator from Archdiocese were in-depth interviewed with the
face-to-face method.
Findings from the in-depth interviews clearly indicate that, first, the policy direction of teachers' development in each discipline is done on 'top-down' basis. Second, with the interconnectedness among competencies, the core competency of the teachers centers on 'knowledge' 'skills' and 'attitudes' Third, the development process of teachers starts from the study of training needs among teachers, planning, implementation and evaluation. Findings, summaries and recommendations in this study will be used to formuiate teachers' development plans, be the fundamental information in teachers' development policy formulation, be the guideline on teachers' self-development scheme and develop the process
of teachers' development for the schools under Archdiocese, Bangkok's Thonburi areas.